Auction: 20th Century Design - 2301Location: BostonDate / Time: December 10, 2005 11:00AM
Description:
Los Castillo
Mixed metal decorated vase
Taxco, Mexico
Cylindrical body decorated with a seated female figure formed from copper, brass and silver, the opposing side with a male figure in like metals with mortar and pestle, on a checkered ground in colors of malachite green and lapis blue, silver interior and raised on deep circular silver foot, silvermaker's and country mark, and numbered 416, ht. 8 1/2, dia. 5 1/8 in.
Estimate $600-800